Saturday, November 03, 2012

Bits and pieces

Happy weekend!

The winner of the giveaway for Mary Sharratt's Illuminations is Shelly W. Thanks to everyone who entered! I've notified Shelly, and her copy of the book is en route.

Sarah Nagle, Collections Librarian at Carver County Library in Chaska, MN, has put together a great "World War II in Fact and Fiction" handout with two of her Minnesota library colleagues; it accompanied their program at the MN Library Association conference on October 5th. If you haven't been able to find enough wartime fiction for yourself or your library's patrons, check out their thematically-arranged list... I'm sure there will be some that are new to you.

The next big thing in the book blogosphere is a meme called... The Next Big Thing. Actually, it's been spreading for the last two months or so. Authors, including many historical novelists, have been tagging one another to describe what their work-in-progress is about. Here's a short collection of these posts. Check them out to see what's in the works.

I also see that the "Forthcoming" guide on HNS website is updated, probably as a result of all of the catalogs you got at the conference - now I can plan my reading and ordering for the next several months. Thank you!!

I *knew* there was something else I meant to post about, but I couldn't pin down what it was. The forthcoming books listing was it! I finished the update last week, with the help of Edelweiss (I love that site) and online publishers' catalogs.